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Book review: Munichs by David Peace

DAVID Peace has had varying degrees of success with his three football novels.
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Munichs, by David Peace, published by Faber & Faber, price: £20

DAVID Peace has had varying degrees of success with his three football novels.
He had great success with ‘The Damned United’ about Brian Clough and Leeds United, which subsequently became a film, but less so with ‘Red or Dead’ about Bill Shankly and Liverpool, but he successfully returns with ‘Munichs’ about the 1958 Munich Air Disaster, the subsequent rise of Manchester United and the changing face of football in Britain.
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On February 6, 1958, British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on take-off at Munich Ai...

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